I binged #AKindOfSpark TV show in one go last night and it gave me so many good feels and cozies 😍

Autistic writer! Autistic cast! Autistic crew! Positive messaging! Heartwarming relationships! Cool story! Strong female leads!

It's free to watch online btw, go watch it!

@booksandchokers
The recording of Friday's conversation with author Elle McNicoll is now online. She chatted with @ferrous for about an hour about neurodiversity, representation and the power of stories, among other things. Enjoy!

#AKindOfSpark #ActuallyAutistic #RepresentationMatters #ownVoices
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-WNcbeVXCDE

@VeryLateDiag
Have you seen that #AKindOfSpark is now on TV? Many of the cast and crew members are autistic, and they've done an amazing job in adapting it. It's on CBBC and the iPlayer. Here's a taster:
https://youtu.be/1-zTNFdac8Y

My #autistic daughter and I are so enjoying watching #AKindOfSpark. A beautiful story, with many #neurodivergent cast and crew members. It's on #CBBC and the #iPlayer, and also in the US and Canada.

“I said to the BBC, it has to be autistic-led. There’s this expression: ‘#Diversity is being invited to be party, #inclusivity is being asked to dance’. But what if we threw the party? What if it was our party?” Elle McNicoll.

@actuallyautistic

https://youtu.be/1-zTNFdac8Y

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/apr/11/a-kind-of-spark-autistic-led-cbbc-show?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

I feel quite spoiled for #autistic content and characters at the moment:

- I started watching #ExtraordinaryAttorneyWoo and I am LOVING it

- I found #ElleMcnicoll's brilliant #AKindOfSpark in the #library, and devoured it whole - the first #fiction #book
I've finished in years

- I (belatedly) read #HannahGadsby's article about her late-diagnosis #autism (whole sections of which I could apply to my own life with barely a word changed)

- I (very belatedly - only 10 years late) binge-watched #SomeGirls on #BBCIplayer and am already missing the characters - especially #ND Saz

Well done, world - keep it up!

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2022/mar/19/hannah-gadsby-autism-diagnosis-little-out-of-whack

Sitting in this #pub, feeling a bit delicate cos I've just started #AKindOfSpark by #ElleMcNicoll (which is about an #autistic kid). It's wazzing down, in a bleak #UK #Winter sort of way. I don't want to live in this stupid country anymore. I am not happy.

And then the wurlitzer plays one of my favourite happy songs. #DanceTheNightAway by #TheMavericks. (I know: they're not cool; I don't care.)

#Beer. #Book. #Music. This'll do. For now.

https://youtu.be/-UajuBAUkBs

#NowPlaying #NowReading #Books

@ArgyleSoda At the #AutisticBookClub we read one book a month, and the books are chosen from bestsellers, prize winners and books by #AutisticAuthors
We’ve just read #AKindOfSpark by Elle McNicoll
Currently reading #UnmaskingAutism by Dr Devon Price

2023 books:
#ProjectHailMary by Andy Weir
#TheReasonIJump by Naoki Higashida
#TheSweetnessOfWater by Nathan Harris
#LettersToMyWeirdSisters by Joanne Limburg
All details on #Meetup ! 🌈♾

@actuallyautistic
#ActuallyAutistic

@peppernut @ferrous @actuallyautistic
Just read ‘A Kind Of Spark’ by Elle McNicoll and everyone at the #BookClub loved it. I had no idea what it was like, I think it’s seriously underrated.

Someone at the group was going to buy lots of copies to give away to their friends, as a primer on #Autism and how we experience the world, it’s that good!
#AutisticAuthors #AKindOfSpark #ListenToUs

@Lilly_Jade_ Everyone kept mentioning it, and tbh I didn’t want to read it, but I’m glad I did because it’s so powerful, I have been so surprised.

It is a great book, I now understand why so many people recommended it to me.

I’m always on the lookout for books that I can recommend to those who know nothing about #Autism and this is one of them. I hope you like it! (thank-you #BookClub members for persuading me to read it!)

#ActuallyAutistic #AKindOfSpark #AutisticBookLover